The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-09-29
EVENTS OF THE WEEK.

| all the large manufacturers in the United
States, is about to be formed. 1t will be
known as the sNational Salt Union," and
will be headquarters for the salt supply Of
firms in Ohio, Michigan and New York met
in this city within the past week and made
| arrangements for union, and another
meeting will be held soon for organization
and election Of officers. The object of the
union is mutual protection and to keep up
the prices so as to be able to compete with
foreign manufacturers The company will
be composed Of sixty-three companies in
all, eleven in the Pittsburg salt company,
nine in New York, thirty in Michigan and
thirteen in Ohio An Office will probably
be located in Pittsburg.
| Gen. Roger A. Pryor, speaking of his
connection with the Chicago Anarchist
| case, said II have nothing whatever to do
with the popular side of the case. have
no concern with the question OF sympathy
with the anarchists or their cnuse. am
deavor to induce the supreme court to
/ reverse the decision Of the Illinois court.
just what will be the form of the appeal
l cannot now say, but we shall attack the
constitutionality Of the Illinois law re-
| garding the construction OF the jury. This
law has been in operation since 1s74. and
| has not been passed upon by the supreme
court. The law of Illinois relating to con-
spiracy will not enter into our application.
Jay Gould's telegraph may have bill to
pay for costly blunder in transmitting, a
telegram from Washington to Boston about
the Government bond offers, whereby
thousands OF dollars were lost. The figures
| named as the maximum that would be ac-
cepted were given as $l24, ,OOO,O instead of
ried to the street with early orders to buy
all the local specialties and everything else
| at big advances over former figures.
The correction did not come for nearly an
| hour after the stock exchange opened, and
/ then those who had been deceived fastened
two or three points, and there was howl
Of disgust from those who got caught.
j. A. Stewart, at Wichita, Kansas, was
sentenced to seventeen years land four
months in the county Jail and fined s3O,sOO
of the Prohibition law. He was clerk in
the West End Drug Store and pleaded guilty
an indictment containing 2,OSO counts at
| the same time as did Hermann, the proprie-
tor of the place. The latter cannot be found,
and it is thought that he has left the
country. The punishment imposed upon
stewart is the heaviest ever given in the
State for violation OF the liquor laws.
Portland, Mich, is much wrought up
IL
VIII re Mrs. Collins was shot dead about q
q quiet Investigation. They spent a night
| in the house and confirm the stories told,
claiming that Mrs. Collins appeared to them
in worldly form: talked plainly, but in a
low voice, about her death: exonerated her
husband. who was at cne time suspected of
her murder; said the gun was discharged
by child by accident, and then she dis
appeared
The advent of couple Of Spanish rams in
excitement at that place. 1t ia suspected
couple Of Cuban Americans supposed to
have been implicated In the latest filibuster
ing enterprise. 1t is reported from Cuba
ihaL II filibusters have been captured and
will be tried by court martial at Mantanzas
also that Manuel Garcia leader of the in
surgents, was killed in the recent skirmist
near Mantanzas
The wise and timely action of TIE Govern
ment in offering to buy at once sl4,0OO,0O0
in bonds had an immediate effect and
eased up Wall street surprisingly. Cal
money was offered in shundanco al and .
per cent and one institution found it had
81 90 900, to loan at per cent. for 80 days
on mixed collateral, and smaller loans were
offered and made on about the same terms
| M6TCiHllIO uOuS60 NcTc hUlc W plnC0 paper
on highly advantageous terms.
r. g. DUN q Co. in their weekly trade
review note s severe monetary stringency
at important centers, Notwithstanding the
large imports Of gold Tue phenomenon il
explained by the large sums absorbed il
railroad construction and building opera
tions in the West and South. The business
failures for the last seven days in the
| United States and Canada numbered lSS
as sgainst 1856 during the corresponding
period of last year.
For few days there has been strin
gency in the money market at New York
but the country generally was not affected
and the Northwest has been especially free
from pressure. The Treasury department
is buying bonds freely and thus relieving
the situation, which is not at all serious ol
panicky. In fact the bonds do come for
ward in such amounts as to indicate that
there is any pinch OF moment even in Wal
street.
o. M. Johnston, Cincinnati usurer, ha:
come to grief. Under pretense of helping
the poor he advanced them small sums o1
meney and executed bills of sale on theil
household effects. He charged them pre-
MUM for the money that was simply as
founding. The case was heard by Judge
Caldwell. The sentence staggered the pris
oner, and he trambled visiblv as the word.
"sl ,OJO and costs were pronounced.
The steamship Alesa, from cholera infect
ed parts of Italy arrived at New York with
cholera on board. On the voyage ovel
there we're eight deaths DIR. Hamilton
surgeon-gen, raj of the marine hospital ser
vice ut New York says there Is no occasion
for alarm and that the malady will moi
spread in this country.
Ellsworth Anderson was shot and
mortally wounded by q woman nance
Meadows at Ha,r. 'dsburg, Ind, Saturday
night. while trying to force his way into hel
house. He was under the influence OF liquor
and had l,een req ulsed hy the woman once
with the warning that II he returned sh'
would shoot him.
There has been sent from Vice-Presiden
Spencer's Office circular to the heads o
the various departments, in the b. e. 0
central building, calling for q reduction
of expenses. Similar changes are to b,
made in the telegraph department.
Commissioner sparks mas approved tn,
recommendation of the Surveyor-Genera
OF New Mexico for an investigation of thu
Fable Montoya land-grant OF 655 ,46S acres
with view to the institution of q suit t.
vacate the outstanding patent.
Edward g. Ross, governor OF New
Mexico, in his annual report states that tn
increase in population the past two year
has been about l4,0 q. At the present rat
the census of 1890 will show q population o
not less than 100000.
Captain John Freer, of the schoone
Ma rsh, who is said to have assisted Doodle
McGarrigle, to escape to Canada, was al
rested upon reaching Chicago. He prompt,
gave bail in the sum Of 5000 and was re
leased.
Mrs. William Wright of New Castle, Ind.
gave premature birth to four children. T
add to this record Mrs. Wright had previous
ly given birth to five pairs Of twins, making
fourteen children at six births.
A new line Of freight steamships will b.
put in operation between Philapelphia ant
Europe, by Messrs. Taylor a. Sons, within
three months, from the pier OF the Reading
railroad.
There is no truth in the reported wreck OF
tha Atlantic AZ Pacific Railroad in Arizona